Check the Stats, Check the Racks

April 20th, 2012 | 12:56 pm | Footage | 7 Comments

Photo by Emilio Cuilan

Normally, at this time of year, all we would have to show for the past three-and-a-half months is a few trips to Below the Bridge, one trip to Drop-In, several nights of pretending to skate at House of Vans, an elaborate Geo Moya blooper reel, and a clinched playoff spot at the bottom of the Eastern Conference. Given 2012′s generosity in climate (the party ends for a bit tomorrow, by the way), we actually had a few nights in midtown, several trips to Flushing (one resulting in an E.J. anxiety attack due to being too far from the T.F.), mad footage of the Tompkins cones, and a wasted bottle of champagne. The bottom-half playoff seeding is still the same.

Contributing filmers: Andre Page & Richard Quintero.

Features: Josh Velez, Ritch Swain, Tyler Tufty, Sweet Waste, Andre Page, Billy McFeely, Pad Dowd, Vladimir Kirilenko, Emilio Cuilan, Negative, Brandon Bramhall, Ty Lyons, Brian Kelley, Rodney Sterling, Rob Gonyon, Jack Sabback, Roctakon, Galen DeKemper, Haffa, Carmelo Anthony, Iman Shumpert, J.R. Smith.

Mooney was locked up while this clip was being filmed, hence his lack of footage.

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if you need something to do tonight — Black Donald Trump live / Palace crew DJing / The Wavy Baby asking you to buy him a drink @ Santos. More info here.

Making Moves at Night

August 5th, 2010 | 7:21 pm | Footage | 2 Comments

It’s the summertime, and that means more sweltering late nights of trying to skate once the temperature drops, like, four degrees. And the humidity stays the same. Going downtown during the day or on a weekend is more or less counterproductive, so the late night mission seems to be the most viable option for skating spots in excess of six seconds before some retard rolls up, breaks a window, and gets everyone kicked out.

Here’s a clip mixed together from a couple of late nighters, some of these nights involved alcohol, others did not, see if you can figure out which ones. There’s a sick Brandon Turner switch noseslide homage in there as well. It was clearly meant to be a switch crook, but think of it as a two-in-one combo move.

Features Billy Rohan, Galen Dekemper, Miles Marquez, Ty Lyons, Matthew Mooney, and Rodney Sterling. Special guest commentary by Geo Moya.

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If you haven’t seen any of the other QS nightly chronicles, there are two from 2008 embedded after the jump.

Riding High in April, Shot Down in May

May 23rd, 2008 | 6:06 pm | Footage | 22 Comments

“I don’t know how old you guys are, but for me, it’s definitely bros over over hoes.” – The Cop in the Picture Above

I’m sure people got accustomed to the regular updates during April, but of course, I needed the mandatory gap of not doing anything so I could find things to post again.

This clip isn’t much, but it’s a few throwaways from the past week since we are still gathering up junk for an upcoming clip. You can see the unbridled stupidity of skating at Chase during 5 P.M. on a Tuesday afternoon and the inevitable frustration that follows it. Rush hour seems to be the only point in time when you can skate it for a duration longer than two seconds, so we had to deal with it. And there’s also a bit of an exposé on the underestimated health risk presented by frontside shove its, which many people tend to forget. So here is a good way to waste a minute of internet time…

Features Mooney’s Cat, Miles Marquez, Rodney Sterling, Galen Dekemper.

(Back on top in June)